“Breathes there the man?”

From “The Lay of the Last Minstrel,” Canto VI.

BREATHES there the man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
  This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart has ne’er within him burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turned
  From wandering...

Poet: Sir Walter Scott
There

( A Émile Le Brun)

"Angels" ! seul coin luisant dans ce Londres du soir,
Où flambe un peu de gaz et jase quelque foule,
C'est drôle que, semblable à tel très dur espoir,
Tout souvenir m'obsède et puissamment enroule
Autour de mon esprit un regret rouge et noir :...

Poet: Paul Verlaine
Been There Before

There came a stranger to Walgett town,

To Walgett town when the sun was low,

And he carried a thirst that was worth a crown,

Yet how to quench it he did not know;

But he thought he might take those yokels down,

The...

Poet:
Can there be any thing more mean


* * *


Can there be any thing more mean

More Malice in disguise

Than Praise a Man for doing what

That Man does most despise
...

Poet:
I cannot see my soul but know 'tis there

I cannot see my soul but know 'tis there

Nor ever saw his house nor furniture,

Who has invited me with him to dwell;

But a confiding guest consult as well,

What raiment honor him the most,

That I be adequately dressed...

Poet:
If He dissolve — then — there is nothing — more —

If He dissolve — then — there is nothing — more —

Eclipse — at Midnight —

It was dark — before —

Sunset — at Easter —

Blindness — on the Dawn —

Faint Star of Bethlehem —

Gone down!


Would...

Poet:
One Day is there of the Series

One Day is there of the Series

Termed Thanksgiving Day.

Celebrated part at Table

Part in Memory.


Neither Patriarch nor Pussy

I dissect the Play

Seems it to my Hooded thinking

Reflex...

Poet:
Some things that fly there be —

Some things that fly there be —

Birds — Hours — the Bumblebee —

Of these no Elegy.


Some things that stay there be —

Grief — Hills — Eternity —

Nor this behooveth me.


There are that resting,...

Poet:
That Love is all there is,

That Love is all there is,

Is all we know of Love;

It is enough, the freight should be

Proportioned to the groove.

Poet:
There are two Mays

There are two Mays

And then a Must

And after that a Shall.

How infinite the compromise

That indicates I will!

Poet: